Associated Press photoIce melts from aspen leaves after a dusting of snow earlier this week along Tie City Trailhead east of Laramie, Wyo. Forecasts predict the first snow will fall across higher elevations in New England Friday night into Saturday morning.

AccuWeather.com reports the same nor'easter bringing heavy rain and gusty winds across Massachusetts Friday is expected to deliver the first snowfall of the year to some locations of the Northeast U.S. and Quebec.

Temperatures are expected to drop inot the 30s in higher elevations Friday evening and into Saturday morning, which will bring snow to the high ground of the Adirondack and Catskill mountains of New York, Green Mountains of Vermont, White Mountains of New Hampshire, Longfellow Mountains of Maine, and the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec.

The snow is not expected to accumulate on roadways as it should melt quickly, but gusty winds, falling leaves and wet conditions will make for treacherous driving.

This will be the first snowfall of the season in New England outside of some activity at Mount Washington earlier this fall.